Posted on 06/07/2024 5:46:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff
1. Root Beer
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When I was a kid in the mid 1950’s, my brother and I had a babysitter who was a farm girl. We asked her for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She was familiar with peanut butter sandwiches, and jelly sandwiches. But she had never heard of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Pickled herring is delicious if made right, but it is not “rotten fish”. The cartoon you posted is amusing but dishonest.
Oh nice! Is that a certain brand, and is it only local?
Okay, I’ll give them the processed cheese. But root beer?!
Scrapple doesn’t make the list?
Canadians are foreigners and A&W (the root beer-based fast food chain) does great business up there.
Grits are hated in much of the US because of associations with Jimmy Carter and television’s “Kiss My Grits” lady.
BTW, grits are polenta, aren’t they? Something they actually eat in Italy, as opposed to what they serve in Italian restaurants here.
Onion rings are American. “Bloomin’ Onions” (as the name suggests) are not something we should be blamed for.
Agree on chicken and waffles and grits.
Never a huge fan of PB&J. Have eaten it and would again. I prefer either PB with butter on the bread first. Same with jelly - give it a layer of butter first.
Corn dogs are also meh.
A life without Hersheys or burgers is not worth living.
I’d add Shrimp. Disgusting sea spiders. No thanks.
This—American “cheese” “food”. Cheese food? Kind of reeks of the government says we can call it food—really, trust us, it’s edible. The gobblement says so. So awful.
Now, if licorice was on the list, I could agree.
....as a transplanted Yankee who never had grits until he moved to the South I agree....!! served with some salt and pepper and some butter...and a side order of country ham!!
(GRITS = Girls Raised in The South)
They can always go back to from whence they came. NO one is making them stay, live and eat here.
As an undergraduate I did a study tour in France and it was a culinary wakening for me as a meat, potatoes and gravy Midwesterner. I was very adventurous and tried many French dishes and found most to be delicious, but there were some things I definitely thought were not really that edible e.g. brochette de rognon ( kidney). However, I am not a fan of chicken and waffles nor any of the batter dipped deep fat fried stuff on a stick that is served at state fairs.
I’d give them 50/50 on this. I don’t “get” chicken and waffles, I don’t think they’re gross but I don’t get them.
Corndogs are gross, I love em, but, even I know they’re nasty.
Hersheys is crap chocolate, always has been, always will be.
Faux burgers are sad.
As George Carlin said “then you throw them out cause you can’t eat them damn grits”.
And yes process cheese, the Hershey of cheese, just awful stuff.
LOL, the first time I saw a can of “Spotted Dick” in a grocery store I did a VERY rapid double-take! I even took a picture of it with my cellphone, took it in to work, and we all had a big laugh over it.
[Russians on the other hand have this thing about all things corn related. To them, corn is only used as pig feed, and never for human consumption.]
While both are Phylum Arthropoda, which includes bugs,
Shrimp is akin to clams - members of the crustacean family (a form of shellfish).
Lobsters are a members of the spider family
Corn dogs are very popular in Korea, China, and I’ve seen them elsewhere in Asia. I actually met a Korean man who owns a corn-dog factory making them for 7-11 type shops in Korea and China!
similar to here, they are sold at public festivals, night markets, street fairs, etc...
Back in the early 70’s my brother was an exchange in West Germany. Our families became close, and one the family members traveled to America with his wife, she bought three jars of peanut butter, one skippy, one jif, and one peter pan, to take back to West Germany.
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